Benoit Mandelbrot, Mathematician, Dies

Benoit B. Mandelbrot at a conference in Tokyo in 2003

Benoît B. Mandelbrot, a maverick mathematician who developed an innovative theory of roughness and applied it to physics, biology, finance and many other fields, died on Thursday in Cambridge, Mass. He was 85.

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